will Python do me good?

[Jeff Davis]

Well, were all a little biased here, so we of course will highly recommend
python. In particular, python has the tools you need (Mike's reply
mentioned some good options) and it also has natural language syntax (not
a lot of symbols and weird characters).

The one thing that I'll add to Mike's reply is that there are a few other
databases available for windows. I've heard reports that Access can really
slow down under any kind of very minor load. If you experience that
problem, you will certainly solve it with MySQL (I normally recommend
PostgreSQL, but PostgreSQL doesn't really work well on windows.).

Regards,
        Jeff


samphdauto wrote:

> Hello every one.. Well, this is the first time I post here since I am
> thinking of learning Python... my background is VB and wanting to find
> a better language in order to build my project and not sure if Python
> is my best option. So your input is greatly appreciated.
> My project will need to extract and re-organize information form the
> web into my Access database under W2K. The info could be text, data,
> files, images, sound files, listings, HTML parsing, sound parsing and
> whathaveyou.
> 
> So if I give it a list of websites. I will need to write the code to
> get specific info from that site or page. So it may need to drill down
> to get to the info. I am not sure if I am making enough sense to you.
> I hope I am.
> 
> Thanks
> Sam